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  2. Cultural depictions of Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon appears in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order as an Archer-class servant. Napoleon is a real-time strategy game that was released in 2001 for the Game Boy Advance. It was one of the console's launch titles in Japan and only saw international release in France under the title L'Aigle de Guerre.

  3. Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

  4. Grande Armée slang - Wikipedia

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    As with all armed forces throughout history, the French Grande Armée of the Napoleonic Wars used a colorful and extensive vocabulary of slang terms to describe their lives, times and circumstances and express their reactions towards them. This is a partial glossary article meant to supplement the articles on La Grande Armée and Military slang ...

  5. Bonapartism - Wikipedia

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    After Napoleon, the term was applied to French politicians who seized power in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, ruling in the French Consulate and subsequently in the First and Second French Empires. The Bonapartistes desired an empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France) and his nephew Louis ...

  6. Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon, defeated at Leipzig, ordered a retreat towards France. On 30 October, the Bavarians tried to stop the French army at the Battle of Hanau . During the Guard cavalry's successive charges against the enemy cavalry and artillery, the Mamelukes lost chef d'escadron Abdallah Hazboun [ fr ] , to injury.

  7. Nobility of the First French Empire - Wikipedia

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    the princes français or French Princes: Joseph Bonaparte (from 1804), Napoleon's brother, hereditary in the male and female grandchildren line; Louis Bonaparte (from 1804), Napoleon's brother; Joachim Murat (from 1804), Napoleon's brother-in-law; Eugène de Beauharnais (from 1805), Napoleon's adopted son; Elisa Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister

  8. Old Guard (France) - Wikipedia

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    The Old Guard (French: Vieille garde) was a formation of the French Imperial Army's Imperial Guard. Consisting exclusively of veteran troops, it was the most prestigious formation in Napoleon's Grande Armée. [1] [2] French soldiers often referred to Napoleon's Old Guard as "the Immortals". [3] [4]

  9. Napoleon I at Fontainebleau on March 31, 1814 - Wikipedia

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    Not coincidentally the work was made in the same year that the Retour des cendres (return of the ashes), or the return of Napoleon's mortal remains from the island of Saint Helena took place. The original of the painting is held at the Museum der bildenden Künste , in Leipzig , while there are copies at the Army Museum , in Paris , [ 1 ] [ 2 ...